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Grange Hill (School’s Out):It would appear that this childrens' drama television show influenced 2D. Um. Yeah, I wouldn't call that a musical influence, but just in case, here's the
main theme from when 2D would have seen it. I must admit, it does sound like something he'd watch.
neutral Yeah. I wouldn't watch it personally.
Be-Bop Deluxe (Mutant Metal Pirates / Noise Candy):Ah, this is more like it! Be Bop Deluxe are a progressive rock band, and reached critical acclaim in the late 1970's. Here's
Maid in Heaven - they look kind of silly, but that's good music.
Stanley Myers (The Sitting Target / Stan the Man):A famous guitar composer, with some beautiful songs to his name. We know that 2D does play accoustic (he plays in Gravity (Soundcheck), for example) and it's likely that he's well acquainted with Myers' solos. Here's the beautiful solo
Cavatina, played by Kaori Muraji.
The Beatles (Rutles Rip-Off Band):Like durrr. Who doesn't know the Beatles? Kong even has the Yellow Submarine in their landfill. Here's
Yesterday live, anyway.
Os Mutantes (The Brazilian Pink Floyd):It surprised me when I found that I had heard of this band, as they seem the unlikely kind of me to remember. They're an influential Brazillian psychedelic rock band of the 1960's, and influenced such artists as Kurt Cobain. This is their recording of
2001 (I think).
Big Audio Dynamite (The Ladbroke Globetrotters):No doubt you’ve heard of them, but do you know their music? B.A.D produce some interesting post-punk rock music; here’s
The Medicine Show. They are noted for their effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip-hop, reggae, and funk into a unique sound helped along by Mick Jones’ vocals.
Jam (The Great British Fry-Up):The Jam were an English punk/rock band, known for
their awful haircuts their distinctly British flavour of pop. They were subject to many influences over their active years in the late 70’s and early 80’s: 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, 1970s punk rock and new wave. They split up in 1982, and their music has not really survived through the 1990’s to see today – however, they are still remembered as legends. The word ‘fab’ springs to mind for some reason… Here are their two biggest hits,
That’s Entertainment and
Going Underground.
Wire (The Art of Noise):Wire is an English rock band, still around today, and they are central to the development of the Post-Punk music movement. They are often cited as one of the most important rock groups of the 70’s and 80’s. This is their (arguably) most famous song,
12XU, while here is a live performance of
Strange. As an influence, they depart a little from the rest of 2D’s favourites so far, but we do know that he was very interested in the graffiti, rebel, punk culture in his youth, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they’re on his list.
Fred Neil (The Midnight Cowboy):Put
this on. Listen to it. Know who Fred Neil is, now? For the proper details, he’s an important American blues and folk singer. He wrote ‘
Candy Man’ for Roy Orbison, and of course Everybody’s Talking. He has often been called a pioneer of the Folk Rock & Singer-songwriter musical genres; his most frequently cited disciples are Tim Buckley, Harry Nilsson, and Jefferson Airplane, but his most prominent descendants have been Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.
Tom Tom Club (Electro Funk Daisy-Agers):The Tom Tom Club is a New Wave band founded in 1980 by spouses and Talking Heads alumni Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz as a side project. Here's their bouncy hit,
Genius of Love. It's animated, and really worth the watch. Also, it has seizure-inducing dogs. SMOKSY.
Bo Dudley (Not to be Confused With…):Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (April 19, 1935 – March 27, 2002), was an Academy-Award nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actor, comedian and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became increasingly famous as half of the double-act he formed with Peter Cook. His fame as a comedic actor was considerably heightened by his success in Hollywood movies such as 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was often known as "Cuddly Dudley".
...I think that's right. Here's
Not Only But Also, which is definately Bo Dudley, and also Dudley Moore. Reminds me of Blusheshi of the Blues Brothers, with a better voice.
XTC (The English Settlers)"XTC was a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success (including the UK hits "
Making Plans For Nigel" (1979) and "
Senses Working Overtime", which is also known as English Settlement, and you will know it, mark my words... um. Hopefully. (1982)), they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records.
Their combination of electric and traditional rock instruments is interesting - and BOY are their videos weird.
Love (All You Need):Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. Today, the band's critical reputation exceeds the limited success they experienced during their time, their 1967 album Forever Changes being held in particularly high regard. Their music is interesting, but not too different from a lot of others on this list. They have an almost... punk sound, but not quite... here's their single, '
7 and 7 Is'.
Siouxsie & The Banshees (The Spellbinders):Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band that formed in 1976. Led by the singer Siouxsie Sioux and the bassist Steven Severin, the band's only constant members, the Banshees formed at the advent of the British punk scene and soon became one of the major bands in the post-punk. Their music influenced a wide range of very diverse bands over the years amongst them The Cure[1], Massive Attack,[2] Garbage[3] and more recently LCD Soundsystem.[4] The group released a total of eleven studio albums from 1978 to 1995.
They're awesome. Awesome.
heart In tone with the little comment there, here's '
Spellbound'. The video is pretty cool too. =D
The Kinks (The Village Green Preservation Society):The Kinks were an English pop/rock group formed in 1963, and categorised as a British Invasion band, along with the other members of the so-called Big Four (along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who). Despite being less commercially successful than these three contemporaries, mostly because of an untimely four-year ban from the United States in the mid-to-late 1960s, the Kinks are cited among them as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time.
Enjoy:
The Village Green Preservation Society. X3 Like the Beatles, it's a happy, melodious song, with a slightly different take on the world.
Roy Budd (He Got Carter):Did you get Carter? No? I think you really should
Get Carter, then. Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947, South Norwood, London – 7 August 1993, London) was a British jazz musician and film composer.
This song, the Get Carter theme, reminds me a little of 'Dracula' - timing is everything. And you know, if he gave it a chance... I bet Muds would like it too.
The Wurzels (Scrumpy And Western):The Wurzels, baby. The
Wurzels. Do I need to say more?
Okay, okay. Adge Cutler and The Wurzels, renamed The Wurzels after Cutler's death, are a British Scrumpy and Western band. The band is best known for its 1976 number one hit "
The Combine Harvester", but has a history stretching nearly 40 years, and still performs to this day.
They're really... odd. o.o I didn't know that one, but I did know this one, '
I Am A Cider Drinker'... inexplicably. Um.
Okay, 2D. Please tell me you were like, five when you were into these guys. Or I'm never going to be able to take you seriously again.
Beach Boys (The Surf’s Up):Much better!
Wouldn't It Be Nice if they didn't use this song for the Cadbury commercials? The Beach Boys are famed for that sunny feeling in their songs, as exemplified in
Surfin' USA. Wow, listen to those fangirls shiek! EEEEEEEEEK!
The Beach Boys are an American rock and roll band. Formed in 1961, they gained popularity for their close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of surfing, girls and cars. Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions later transformed them into a more artistically innovative group that earned critical praise and influenced many later musicians.
Listen to their
beautiful guitars. Remind you of
anything?
...Holy... hearing that live still makes my hair stand on end.
I cried the first time I heard it on the CD...Jonathan Richman (The Original Roadrunner):Jonathan Richman (born 16 May 1951) is an American proto-punk musician. He is known for his wide-eyed, near-childlike lyrical outlook, and music that, while rooted in 1950s rock and roll structures, can be wildly eclectic. It's very interesting - here's one I chose for 2D: '
I'm So Confused'. XD
The Human League (The Sheffield Steel / The Sound of the Crowd):DON'T YOU WANT ME BAY-BEH? DON'T YOU WANT ME, OHHHHHH!
The Human League are an award winning, Grammy nominated British synthpop/New Wave band formed in 1977 who, after a key change in line up, achieved great popularity in the 1980s. They have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1990s, 2000s up to the present day.
He looks like a chick, but don't let that throw you off. It's a really good song, for it's electronic sound, and... um... it's just fun.
Buzzcocks (Punk’s Beatles):Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Manchester in 1975, led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Shelley for nearly their entire existence.
They are commonly regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement and the punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock genres in general. They are primarily remembered for their singles, a string of would-be hits that combined a strong grasp of pop song craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a "punk masterpiece".
Do you remember the chase scene in Shrek 2? That was a US cover of a Buzzcocks hit, '
Ever Fallen In Love'. Listen to the original. It's much better. I think I can almost hear elements of the Buzzcocks in Blur's music, actually, so it's only natural that they're listed as a Gorillaz influence.
Gang of Four (Over The Counter Speed):Gang of Four is an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill. In 2004, the original line-up reunited.
They play a stripped-down mix of punk rock, with strong elements of funk music, minimalism and dub reggae and an emphasis on the social and political ills in society. Gang of Four's later albums (Songs of the Free and Hard) found them softening some of their more jarring qualities, and drifting towards dance-funk and disco. Their debut album, Entertainment!, ranked at #490 in Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Here's '
Damaged Goods', a rather... interesting song.
Roxy Music (Should’ve Stuck Together):Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitars), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Former members are Brian Eno (synthesizer and "treatments"), later famous producer and musician, and Eddie Jobson (synthesizer and violin), replacing Eno. Extant from 1971 through 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have announced that they are recording a new album for a yet-to-be-confirmed release date.
The group's name was partly an homage to the titles of old cinemas and dance halls, and partly a pun on the word 'rock'. Ferry had first named the band Roxy, but learning of an American band with the same name prompted the alteration of the name. The juxtaposition of nostalgia with contemporary or futuristic themes was a distinctive feature of the band, particularly in their earliest incarnation. The group is noted for their combination of idiosyncratic experimentation and sophisticated wit, evident in their literate lyrics, restrained instrumental virtuosity, and highly developed visual presentation, mainly directed by Ferry, that expropriated imagery from the realms of high fashion, kitsch, and commercial photography.
Here's '
More Than This', and their hit, '
Love Is The Drug'. It's quite pleasant, bouncy, pop with a touch of blues... not quite my thing.
I think that's all. I have to admit, though, for 2D's influences... all these British accents are the smex.
cool I would marry half of their voices, given the chance.
ninja Yes, that is partly why I like 2D and Damon and... and Jamie.
Russel up next!
Directory:
1. Introduction
2. Murdoc
3. 2D -->You Are Here<--
4. Russel
5. Noodle
6. Russel and Murdoc / Russel and Noodle
7. Russel and 2D / Noodle and 2D
8. Noodle and Murdoc / Murdoc and 2D
